Jeff Hames - 2006 National Mountain Dulcimer Champion

Calling All Dulcimer Players!!!

New / Young Dulcimer Players Forum will have a

"Meet & Greet"

at Walnut Valley Festival, Winfield, KS

The New / Young Dulcimer Players Forum will have a Meet & Greet on Thursday, September 18, 2008, at 7:00pm central at my camp site at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, KS.

Dates and times are subject to change so please check back often. As Amber and I finalize more information about the Meet & Greet we will post udates to the forum under the "Meet & Greet" topic.

This Meet & Greet is "Bring Your Favorite Jamming Snack!" We will snack and jam and meet and greet. So pass the word and let everyone know.

If you don't know where my camp site is located, we will have someone meet you at the south end of the grand stands for a guided tour to my camp site at 6:45pm central.

The Meet & Greet is open to everyone and all ages!

Hope to see you at Winfield, KS!

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The New / Young Dulcimer Players Forum Goes to School

After three to four months of working with administrators and teachers the NYDPF is offering a forum for schools that teach mountain dulcimer to their students. Starting on May 2nd our pilot school will have its first New / Young Dulcimer Players Forum on my web site during their regular class time and they have already scheduled a second forum that will take place on May 16th with me and special guest host Bing Futch. The pilot school has two classes of mountain dulcimer students that are made up of 5th and 6th graders. The dulcimer students will all be signed into the forum via their media / computer lab at their school. Like my other forums, we will be discussing a topic related to the mountain dulcimer. I hope to have future forums that will include special guest hosts which will give the students access to other dulcimer instructors, performers and builders that they may never have had the chance to meet.

I would like to see more schools take advantage of this opportunity so if you know of a school that would like to have an opportunity like this for their dulcimer students please have them contact me via my email address, dulcimermusic@bellsouth.net, and I will be happy to forward, for their review, all the information I have on the steps we went through to set up the forum for our pilot school.

You can check out the New / Young Dulcimer Players Forum by clicking in the "Forum" tab on the left side of this screen.

Keep Playing The Music!

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WoodSongs Old Time Radio Hour

On July 30, 2007, WoodSongs Old Time Radio Hour honored the mountain dulcimer with the "Celebration of the Mountain Dulcimer" with Jean Ritchie, the Nashville Dulcimer Quartet and Jeff Hames. This show, numbered 450, was viewed via the internet by more then 900,000 viewers. It also had a sold out audance leaving standing room only in the beautiful Kentucky Theatre. You can view this show by going to WoodSongs Old Time Radio Hour Archives.

Pictured above from left to right: Sandy Conatser, Jeff Hames, Natasha Deane, Lee Rowe, Jean Ritchie, Michael Johnathon, and Linda Sack. This picture was taken after their performances on WoodSongs Old Time Radio Hour in the beautiful Kentucky Theatre on July 30, 2007.